Steering apparatus for air-craft.



A. USTIAM. STEERING APPARATUS FOR AIR CRAFT.

APPLICATION HLED JU2E 7,1913.

' Patented. $10124 1914.

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BI'EERIHG APPARATUS FOR AIR CRAFT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 19 13.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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unrrnn snares earner enema ANTONIO GUSTIANA, OF SUDB'URY, ONTARIG,GANADA.

STEERING APPARATUS FOR VAIReIJRA-FT.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AN'roNio .GUSTIANA,

a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the town ofSudbury, in the dis- '5 trict of Algoma and Province of Ontario,Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSteering Apparatusfor Air-Craft; and I hereby declare that the followingis a naled in. an oscillating bearing'sojhat it .'can be turned in anydirection with respect to the longitudinal axis of the aerial craft forcausing the aerial craft to fly in the direction-required bv the aerialnavigator, as.

hereinafter set forth and particularly pointed 'out in the claim.

Inthe drawings: Figure 1,'is a perspective view of the rudder and itsrelated parts in their normal position; Fig. 2., is a plan View of thesame,.showi ng the normal position of the rudder in full linesand'its'turm ing positions in dotted lines when changing the directionof the aerial craft to the ri ht or left; Fig. 3, is a side elevationshowlng the normal position of the rudder-inffull lines and its turningpositions in dotted lines when causing it to assume an upward ordownward inclination and F ig'.,4, Z-is a front elevation of thesteering apparatus.

'Like characters of reference refer to like parts throughout thespecification and v drawings.

The rudder a is fixed on a shaft 6 jour- -1 ,1 naled in an oscillatingbearing 0, and fixed on-the s aft 6 is a drum d, to which are I "1,connecte tiller ropes e whereby said rudder 1 0- can be caused tooscillate around the axis of;

vispeciiication of Letters Eatent.

full, clear, and i 10 exact description of the same.

Hyinvention relates to steering apparatus for aerial craft, in which therudder is joun' to the leftin this case,

Patented Nov. 24, rain.

Application filed June-7, 1913. Seria1'No 772,293.

of the air craft j. Connected to the oscillating bearing 0 are tillerropes m by which the bearing 0 causes the rudder to oscillate around theaxis of the shaft.

The operation of the steering apparatus '55 1S as follows :Assuin ingthat the air craft is advancing in a horizontal position, and it isdesired to cause it to change its directii'in the tiller ropes do willbe ,worked to turn. the oscillating frame so {1 so that the rudder awill assume an inclined position to the left of the longitudinal axis ofthe ai craft 7" and tail frame The rudder, in this case, being in aperpendicular plane, will cause the head of the air craft to swing tothe left. If it is desired to change the-direction of the air-craft tothe right, the oscillating frame 9 and rudder a are turned to the rightcausing a corresponding change of the headof the air '10 craft'to theright. If it is desired to cause the air craft to ly downward, thetiller ropes e are operated to turn the rudder a to a horizontalposition. The tiller ropes m are then operated to oscillate the bearing0 and turn rudder a in a downward direction, these movements of therudder causing the head of the air craftto assume. a downward direction.If it is desired to cause the air craft to fly upward, the oscillatingbearing c and rudder a are turned'in an upward direction.

If it is necessary at any time to combine the upward and downwarddirection with a change ofdirection to the right or left, the rudder canbe turned into a tilted position to the right or left of itslongitudinal axis above or below its normal horizontal position.

Having-thus fully described the nature of my invention, what I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A steering apparatus for air craft, comprising a forked-tail frame, anoscillating annular frame journaled between the forks thereof, means forturning the oscillating frame about its axis,; an oscillating annularbearing having hollow arbors journaled in the oscillating frame;wherehythe axis of the revolution of the oscillating bearing is at rightangles to the oscillating frame, oscillating bearing or frame wherebythe in) means for turning the oscillating bearing rudder can be turnedinto a horizontal plane independently of "the oscillating frame, a orinto an angular relation therewith. rotatable shaft Cjiourlflialed inthe oscillz fting Sudbury, May 27th, 1913.

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drum ilnounted on said shaft and flexible v ANTONIO GUSTIANA' meanspassing through the hollow arbors Signed in the presence of andconnected With said drum for turning GEO. J. .VALIN, the shaft andrudder independently of the L. H. MEHER.

homes of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressingthe Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. G. l

